Transcribe bilingual council meetings te reo Māori and English, item by item.
A 5-hour council or iwi meeting held in te reo Māori and English is transcribed in about 10 minutes, detected on its main language with the switches between the two handled. The first 20 minutes are free, and six 4-hour meetings come to 1,440 minutes, which fits on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
For councils, iwi and the people who follow them
A long meeting in two languages, searchable by agenda item.
A working record, not an official one
This is an AI transcript with timestamps to work from, not the official minutes or a certified record. te reo passages are a fast first draft, plan one review pass with a fluent reader before quoting them.
From the livestream link
If the meeting was livestreamed to YouTube, paste the link and nothing needs downloading. Otherwise download the recording and upload it; a 5-hour meeting fits in one file of up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Large video downloads continue on upload page.
Meetings in numbers
Two 4-hour meetings are 480 minutes on the $6 pack of 500. A quarter of six is 1,440 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000. Twenty 4-hour meetings are 4,800 minutes and fit the $24 pack of 5,000. Prices are in US dollars, with credits that never expire.
Find the item you care about
Chapters follow the agenda with timestamps, the brief lists resolutions and what was decided, and the amounts, dates and place names said aloud are pulled out. The chair and members who spoke are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Why long council meetings go unread
The decision you need is somewhere in a five-hour video.
✗ A webcast and a long wait
Official minutes arrive weeks later and summarise the debate, and the te reo contributions are hard to find in the video. Residents, reporters and iwi staff who need one item sit through hours of procedure to reach it.
- Five hours of video to scrub
- Minutes that leave out the debate
- English-only captions
- No way to search one item
- Downloads cut to fit an upload cap
- Quotes typed by hand
✓ A searchable draft
The full meeting in text with chapters per item, ready the same afternoon.
- Around 10 minutes for five hours of debate
- te reo and English in the same record
- Chair and members named in the brief
- Resolutions set out at the top
- An agenda item per chapter
- A quarter of meetings, one $12 pack
Sample
A meeting opening in te reo and moving to the agenda.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page; it is not from any council, iwi or member. It shows te reo Māori and English kept as spoken in one record.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $6 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Bilingual council meetings, answered.
How long does a 5-hour meeting take?
Close to 10 minutes, with each hour of audio taking around 2. A 3-hour committee meeting takes about 6, so the record can be searched before the public gallery has left the building.
What would twenty council meetings cost?
Twenty 4-hour meetings are 4,800 minutes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. A quarter of six meetings is 1,440 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000. A team recording every single week may prefer the $19/month Workspace. Anyone new starts with the first 20 minutes free.
What if the meeting runs past 10 hours?
Upload it as two files, split at an adjournment. Each file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first, and before the first pack an upload can be up to 2 GB.
How is te reo Māori handled?
The meeting is detected on its main language and switches between te reo and English are handled. Accuracy in te reo trails English, so names, place names and formal language need a fluent check.
Can this stand in for the council's official minutes?
No. It is a timestamped AI transcript to work from, not the council's minutes and not a certified transcript. Opening karakia that is chanted or recited is not transcribed; the debate is.
What formats come back, and who sees the council recording?
Downloads cover TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, and SRT or VTT can caption the meeting video for viewers. Recordings of council and iwi meetings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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